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ObuckiO

macrumors regular
Original poster
Dec 9, 2011
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Ohio
Hi folks,

Devices: Apple TV, Late '08 MacBook pro, Late '16 iMac.

I rarely use the iMac yet, but prefer to download iTunes movies from MacBook due to the authorization I lack on family share.

What could I do to free up space the movies are hogging on MacBook? Every method I've tried hides movies from Apple TV also. I have no external hard drive, 8 gigs on each computer, just over 100 movies and i'm not the family sharer main account holder.

I thought about downloading them on the iMac from here on, or re-download them from it. The family share holds me up from just purchasing them on Apple TV due to a member not wanting to give or remembering the 4 digit code our account holds on the credit card(that's a whole other issue with a renting process I dislike).

I've done a couple Youtube suggestions on fixing the warning: "Your startup disc is almost full" procedures, but wasn't able to get the movie files in finder to pop-up like the video did. So I deleted some other old stuff to get the warning to stop and free up a gig or so.
Movies are 202.22gb of storage.


Thanks for any help.
 
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